Does Redis only allow string representation but not numeric value

Question

I am getting mixed answers on my research here.

• Can someone verify that the Redis Server can only store representation of any numerical values?

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Answer 1

Double numbers could be stored as string if you're using JSON codecs, but it also could be stored in binary format used by Kryo, CBOR, MsgPack codecs which are supported by Redis based framework for Java - Redisson.